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Mike McGee takes "responsibility"

Former Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee, who is looking at a guideline sentence of six to 10 years in prison on his bribery conviction, says in a letter to the judge that he wants to "express my complete regret, sorrow and responsibility for the charges I was recently convicted of."

McGee then goes on for 13 pages about how he has been unfairly held without bail. He also rips into state prosecutors for charging him with plotting to have a man beaten. He is set to go to trial on those charges in December.

McGee says he is writing directly to Clevert, to share facts with the judge that he says his attorney -- public defender Calvin Malone -- "refuses" to include in appeals for McGee's release. Malone made several attempts to bail McGee out prior to the trial.

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